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on 18e Briti Species of Carem — 
tatem culmi. Mafcula erecta, oblonga, f. fub-linearis, flavefcenss 
Íquamz oblongæ, acutiufcule. Fœmineæ ambæ ex codem nodo 
prodeunt, pedunculatz, mox pendulz, oblongz, pauciflore—Brac- - 
tea f. folium vaginans dimidium pedunculorum, qui capillares funt, 
Occupat. Vagina in foliolum exit culmo paulum longius. Squamæ 
deciduæ, ovate, obtufæ, fub-fulvæ, capfulà breviores Capfula- 
ovata, roftrato-acuminata, ore indivifo. S#gmata tria. 
Of. Spica maícula admodum pauciflora. 
The diminutive ftature of this plant, its capillary peduncles, its- 
‘female fpikes pendulous, lax, with few flowers, from four to eight. 
and the fquamz of the fame being deciduous, place it in too con/pi= 
cuous a light to be miftaken.. 
I never have had the good fortune to: fee this plant growing 3; 
I have taote iore SEA Mai ws to take my mone ane from dried. 
Ípecimens. — 
30. CAREX DEPAUPERAT A. 
€. vaginis plufquam dimidiatis, fpicis foemineis remotis paucifloriss. 
capfulis ovatis inflatis roftrato-acuminatis. 
Cyperoides fylvarum anguítifolium caule trilatero, fpicis parvis, . 
capfulis rarius difpofitis, obefis, &c.. Mich. Gen. p. $6. t. 32.- 
f. 5. Withering, p. 1049. 
= Carex ventricofa. Fl. Londin, bona, 
Habitat in fylvà Chariton dictà—In fylvis prope Gedalmim in agro - 
Surreiano. Maio, Junio. 
‘Radix fibrofa, perennis. Folia pallidé virefcentia, marginibus . 
carinâque afperis; radicalia ad bafin rufa, culmo breviora. Cu/mus. 
- erectus, pedalis, bipedalis, triqueter, angulis obtufiufculis, glabris. 
Spice, - 
